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Sunday, May 29, 2016

A plan for an underground city beneath Chicago

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Doomsday Projection

New deficit forecast - crisis in 2059

Here is my latest deficit forecast, showing a breaking point in 2059 . This is based in part on the CBO forecast at https://www.cbo.gov/d...

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Naked Capitalism

How Local and Federal Institutions Are (and Aren’t) Taking Care of North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene Survivors—and What Mutual Aid Groups Are Doing to Help - Grassroots organizations are helping rebuild North Carolina communities after Hurricane Helene. And how about FEMA?
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Armstrong Economics

World Bank Missing $41 Billion in Climate Funds - A new report by Oxfam, “Climate Finance Unchecked,” has determined that the World Bank has $41 billion in unaccounted funds that were destined to fight cli...
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The Gateway Pundit

Watch CNN’s Scott Jennings Take Down the Professional Never-Trumpers: ‘Nothing Has Ever Failed as Hard’ (VIDEO) - One of the added bonuses of the 2024 election is that the never-Trump grifter class is basically out of work now. The post Watch CNN’s Scott Jennings Tak...
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of two minds

Unaffordable Housing and Homeless Encampments: How Did It Get This Bad? - *To reverse the damage wrought by financialization, we must reverse financialization.* *The post-election hope that festering problems can now be solved d...
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The Burning Platform

Don’t Deport . . . Defund - Guest Post by Eric Peters Hopefully, incoming President Trump will not try to deport the millions of illegal aliens – they are not “migrants” – the outgoi...
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Calculated Risk

Friday: No Major Economic Releases - [image: Mortgage Rates] Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • At 10:00 AM: *University of Michigan'...
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Wolf Street

Fed’s Balance Sheet Drops Below $7 Trillion. QT: -$53 Billion in Oct., -$1.97 Trillion from Peak, to $6.99 Trillion, Back to May 2020 - Quantitative Tightening has shed 41% of the assets that the Fed had added during pandemic QE.
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Jesse's Café Américain

Stocks and Precious Metals Charts - Wait For It -
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David Stockman's Contra Corner

Now Comes The Payback From The Donald’s Half-Assed Theory of Economics - The hagiography of Donald Trump has started. The one below by the very evil Stephen Miller should be a wake-up call as to what lies immediately ahead. This...
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Mike Norman Economics

Functional finance — Lars P. Syll - What monetarists. deficit hawks, and debt phobes don't get. Quotes by Abba Lerner and John Maynard Keynes. Lars P. Syll’s Blog Functional finance Lars P. S...
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The Slog.

THE REAL POWER– AND LIMITATIONS – OF TRUMP’S VICTORY - There is a demographic concept increasingly used in the US, that is “pay-check Americans” – people paid casually […]
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The Bonddad Blog

Jobless claims: back to almost completely normal and neutral - *- by New Deal democrat* Initial jobless claims continued their return to normalcy this week, as they increased 3,000 to 221,000. The four week movi...
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Political Calculations

New Home Affordability Crisis Now 30 Months Old, Younger Americans Priced Out - [image: An editorial cartoon of a new home salesperson listening to an upset buyer who earns the median household income. Image generated by Microsoft Cop...
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The Automatic Earth

Debt Rattle November 7 2024 - Edouard Manet Berthe Morisot with a bouquet of violets 1872 • A Good Morning in America (Paul Craig Roberts) • If The Election Outcome Is As I Expected...
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NaturalNews.com

Donald Trump will be the second U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms, and the first to win THREE elections but only serve TWO terms - (NaturalNews) Conservatives are rejoicing after Donald Trump won the 2024 election with flying colors, becoming only the second U.S. president to serve t...
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The Unz Review:

Voting Is a Waste of Time! or Is It?, by Ambrose Kane - Donald Trump’s massive win for the highest office in the land shocked much of the world. Not only did Trump earn a second term, defeating Vice President Ka...
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The Market Ticker

The Market Ticker - The Yield Curve.... - .... *is reversing. Finally.* In fact it can be argued that it was precisely the day in September when The Fed announced its "50 point cut" that marked ...
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Advancing Time

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American Enterprise Institute – AEI

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American Thinker

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AXEC: New Foundations of Economics

Occasional Xs: The foul spirit of political economics (C) - #Economics#FailedFakeScience “I feel anxious and saddened by Trump’s election. Years of turmoil and uncertainty await us.” (Daron Acemoglu) Economics ...
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Bill Mitchell – Modern Monetary Theory

Both main candidates were unelectable but one was more in tune with the nation than the other - So from January 20, 2025, Donald Trump will inherit the on-going genocide that the US government has been party to in the Middle East. He will then have no...
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Bond Economics

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CBO's Publications

Effects of Automatic Stabilizers on the Federal Budget: 2024 to 2034 - CBO provides estimates of the budgetary effects of automatic stabilizers—as well as the size of federal budget deficits without them—back to 1974 and forwa...
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Citizen Watch Report

Germany is PLUNGING and it’s Spreading to the Rest of the World -
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Confounded Interest – Anthony B. Sanders

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Consciousness of Sheep

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Conservative Brief

Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos Posts ‘Big Congratulations’ to Trump - This is a big deal. The post Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos Posts ‘Big Congratulations’ to Trump appeared first on Conservative Brief.
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Credit Bubble Bulletin

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Daily Sceptic

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Dealbreaker

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Due Diligence and Art

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Economic Collapse

The Best Thing for America Would Be a Donald Trump Blowout - If Democrats had their way, Donald Trump wouldn’t be anywhere near the presidency again.
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FRED Blog

Are poorer countries catching up with richer countries? : Research on convergence from the St. Louis Fed - Annual gross domestic product (GDP) is a common way to compare economic standards of living between countries. A more specific measure is the inflation-adj...
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Global Macro Monitor

Taleb on Fragility of Markets, Political Risk, AI -
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Gonzalo Raffo InfoNews

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Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog

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Health Impact News

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Investment Research Dynamics

Mining Stocks Haven’t Been This Undervalued Since 2001 - Tom Bodrovics invited me back onto this Palisades Gold Radio podcast to discuss the election, the economy, the national debt and mining stocks. We also dis...
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InvestmentWatch

The Basics of Building a Crypto Portfolio -
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Johnday's Blog

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KUNSTLER

KunstlerCast 413 - Journalist Elizabeth Nickson, MK Ultra and other Reindeer Games
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Lame Cherry

MALIA X - As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter. Can anyone doubt in studying the above photo of the artist formerly known as Malia Obama, th...
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LARS P. SYLL

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LewRockwell

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LifeSiteNews

Canada’s intelligence service acknowledges ‘diverse and inclusive’ hiring practices - Recent job postings for summer interns appeared to indicate hiring would be based on so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements.
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Lighthouse Economics

RFK, Jr.: The FDA’s War on Public Health Is about to End -
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Michael Hudson

US Election: The Illusion of Choice - Explore Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson's analysis on the state of U.S. politics, revealing the bipartisan silence on global power shifts, economic prio...
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Michael Roberts Blog

US election result: first thoughts - Former president Republican Donald Trump is heading for a convincing victory in the US presidential election. The Republicans have won control of the Senat...
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Moneyness

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Next Big Future

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OpenTheBooks Substack

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Our Finite World

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Outspoken with Dr Naomi Wolf

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Pension Pulse

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Profstonge Weekly

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real economics

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Red Voice Media

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Reminiscence of the Future...

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Resilience

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Sovereign Man

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SPIEGEL ONLINE - International

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The Antiplanner

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The Babylon Bee

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The Busker

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The Corbett Report

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The Grayzone

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the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

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Unreported Truths

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Urban Decay

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Viable Opposition

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Wall Street On Parade

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